Steinberg Depersonalization Test

[Biz]

49 and I am doing a lot better so many 'sometimes' used to be 'almost all the time' s. I feel better though so that's got to be good enough. @Lizio , I love your comment about your psych sessions in your head. I have imaginary sessions all the time with myself and various therapists I've seen. :) Glad I'm not the only one.

 

[void]

33 for me, but that is a life history thing.

If I retook it and framed it for just the last 4 year...

Your welcome, @The Albatross :)

This is why I did post the thread...to stimulate self-examination, self-awareness, and insight. An integral part of any healing path. It is an opportunity for us all to go deeper still.

Peace awaits!

 

[greenleaf]

Does anyone else find the words "depersonalization" and "derealization" strange and a bit "off"? They don't seem to fit, to the extent that I had no clue that they pertain to various experiences I have on and off until I read examples of them (like in this test).

The only problem is... I have no clue what words would be better for these experiences as a whole; the questions in the test use words that fit some of my experiences, so it's not impossible to find words for some things.

 

[Chava]

@greenleaf I'm good enough with the terms but I know they are imperfect and it's so hard to nail down our spectrum of experience in words or a few sentences. Like the feeling of watching myself from outside....that only happened in childhood, but in adulthood I'd explain the experience as "me" existing a few inches outside my body. That's not a quiz option. But I relate closely enough to the quiz language. The language is imperfect because the experiences are so subjective and...even when they seem to match, our descriptions or language for the experience will vary....

Given all that, I know it's fair enough to say I'm somewhere on the dissociative spectrum. It's just most important I'm aware of how/when this happens for me and how much to accept right now and how much to try to challenge.

 

[Queen Boudica]

What if you during social interactions (especially when talking to psychologist) are not on the outside but inside yourself, like talking, but protected inside yourself. So you are still mostly conscious of things, like you can hear the other person talking, but not so much physically, like, I couldn't even tell you what colour my psychologist's shirt is most of the time and make very little eye contact, except sometimes when I feel safer (usually when I am not talking or if I have some really important thing to say or question I have to ask and want to see his reaction. Like I am a tortoise with my head only slightly sticking out of the shell or in a cocoon.

He has a small dog, and that dog loves to have a teddy bear thrown to go and fetch. So in the waiting room he comes up to me and I throw the bear lots. In session the dog will often be right next to me or even on my lap, with bear in mouth, waiting for me to take it from him and throw. Sometimes I am not even aware he is there. Until he starts scratching at my lap quite vigorously to get attention, then I seem to come out and be aware of him.

 

[illusionist]

49 for me.....really?

 

[desiderata310]

@Lizio very similar for me. Even down to the dog except when my distress level goes up she is up in my face, jumping on me and licking me.

 

[PTSD NON VETERAN mom]

55! I thought this was called disassociation. I have been on meds and weekly therapy for 1 year 7 months since my trauma. My T keeps telling me I'm getting better? Even when I tell her I have isolated myself more. Psychiatrist changed my depression meds a few months ago. Things are so hard and have had alot of "personal setbacks" as my T would say. Feeling hopeless... but getting better?

 

[scout86]

I think "dissociation" is a somewhat different deal. But, I think you can "feel" hopeless and still be getting better. "Feelings are not facts", as Ms Spock likes to say.

 

[PreciousChild]

33. Crap. I've kind of been ignoring threads about depersonalization. I thought I was dissociation. Like Albatross, if I took it again, it would be less, and I'll do that to see. But it would be much higher if I took it in college. So much of the test describes what I was going through. It's still painful to think about.

 

[Ellabella44]

39, not surprised, on the dissociation quiz I got a 61 so was expecting it to be worse.

Sooo I'm not sick but I'm not well lol

 

[greenleaf]

I am fairly sure that depersonalization and derealization are subtypes of dissociation; this is mentioned various places, such as:

http://www.isst-d.org/?contentID=76
"There are five main ways in which the dissociation of psychological processes changes the way a person experiences living: depersonalization, derealization, amnesia, identity confusion, and identity alteration. These are the main areas of investigation in the Structured Clinical Interview for Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D) (Steinberg, 1994a; Steinberg, Rounsaville, & Cicchetti, 1990). A dissociative disorder is suggested by the robust presence of any of the five features."

(The same Steinberg, I think)